My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Movie Details

Original Title My Beautiful Laundrette

Original Language EN

Budget $860,000

Revenue $2,451,545

Status Released

Popularity 1.0

Cast

Gordon Warnecke

Omar Ali

Popularity: 0.4

Daniel Day-Lewis

Johnny Burfoot

Popularity: 1.9

Roshan Seth

Hussein "Papa" Ali

Popularity: 1.0

Saeed Jaffrey

Nasser Ali

Popularity: 1.9

Derrick Branche

Salim N. Ali

Popularity: 0.4

Rita Wolf

Tania N. Ali

Popularity: 0.5

Souad Faress

Cherry N. Ali

Popularity: 2.8

Shirley Anne Field

Rachel

Popularity: 1.1

Richard Graham

Genghis

Popularity: 3.4

Garry Cooper

Squatter

Popularity: 1.4

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Charu Bala Chokshi

Bilquis

Popularity: 0.2

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Persis Maravala

Nasser's Elder Daughter

Popularity: 0.0

Key Crew

Director Stephen Frears

Producer Tim Bevan, Sarah Radclyffe

Editor Mick Audsley

Writer Hanif Kureishi

Production

Working Title Films

SAF Productions

Channel Four Films

Videos & Trailers

40th Anniversary | Official Trailer

Trailer

Cinemoments: My Beautiful Laundrette

Clip

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jul 16, 2025

This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, p ... Read more